If I remember correctly, the pixelation was intentional. I think it was in relation to the Pixel ReMaster releases for the games, hence why it was like that.

Dang halfway through shadowbringers and this thumbnail popped up. Couldn’t have been the hooded version for thumbnail sake 😂 it’s been 5 years so can’t blame you also I should have expected it but man rip

Yeah I feel that’s the primary problem. It kinda messes with the lighting of the cutscene and visually makes no sense since the magic effect that goes to the peak of the tower is still there- 🥲

me not giving a fk about elidibus 😅

Fr same, i bawled my eyes out again 😭

I was reminded... that he's my hero... ;-;

Just played that part for the first time yesterday, thought the tower turned off

the graphics update is on going, it was never supposed to be a one and done.

@Selvokaz oh my bad I thought it looked like the Crystal Tower and the crystals were higher res

@@phantomchaos2491 They are. At EU fanfest one of the devs said it was his job to oversee updating EVERY instance, cut scenes area and zone before 7.0 released. We can see they did just that, but they said NPCs and gear will take until 7.4 at the latest; that was stated during the final PLL before early access.

@@Selvokaz You don't wait for something to be done to address potential problems. It may be nothing but it's better to bring it up.

Yep, seems like majority of those who comment did not understood that or they were not reading the newsletter or have even heard the live letters...sad really. Truthfully, this video would be great if original poster did this when the graphical updates were done.

I really REALLY hope for some sort of optimization. According to the benchmark everything should be fine but my game runs absolute horrible with huge lag spikes. It takes sometimes almost minutes till everyone "Loaded" in for me im Frontlines. I already tried to tweak a lot and lowered the settings but the update did so far more "harm than good" for me.

Complaints are good, it's how a lot of things happen in the world. As long as people remain civil.

@@QuixoteX Not sure what you meant with your statement but if it's about the graphical update, the Dev team have explicitly mentioned this will take around several major patches across 7.x and not just a few weeks meaning the visual changes may not be as apparent OR only a few items/surfaces have change if you play cutscenes from the previous expansion.

They said this with Viera and Hrothgar hats, then they stopped even making new headpieces work(along with event and mogstation stuff). They say a lot of things. To keep us hooked and hoping. Because they know most of this fanbase is too scared to put their foot down and demand value for their money, and for them to stop false advertisement(no really, you can go down the rabbit hole of yoshida interviews, and you'll have your eyebrows raised quite a bit). This game's community would do well to take after communities such as OSRS in 2012, and to some degree the WoW community during their Shadowlands expansion, where the consumers had been blatantly telling the company "no, I want my money's worth", and would then stop playing altogether. Because that's the only way companies will actually listen, when you withhold the sole reason why they're making the product - to make money. It's still hilarious to me that people still think that Yoshi-P cares about the playerbase directly, when in reality, SE is milking his good reputation for everything it's worth by using him as a scapegoat to cut corners, so that they can profit even more. And it works really fucking well. Because, again, this community generally believes they're building and supporting a hard effort to restore the game. It's frankly incredible that SE has managed to spin an absolute disastrous result of neglect(1.0) into a sob story that they got their customerbase attached to. And before you assume, I've likely been playing this game longer than you, the reader. I've watched its ups and downs. I've paid attention to the direction the game is taking, and my friends who have been playing even longer than me share a similar sentiment. SE is very obviously cutting corners(I remember their LL addressing concerns of shadowbringers having less content compared to stormblood, and their counter-argument was written msq line count LOL). Because they can. Because this playerbase is allowing them to. Stop allowing this shit to happen. Stop defending this. This cutscene is a very important part in the msq, and it's incredible that you're defending what's probably a day's work for an artist to brush up. I don't even want to imagine how other cutscenes with him like this look like lol.

It was burning a bit too bright before I like the new but it could be glowing a little tho

I assume its just that its still using the old material. probably just gonna get fixed whenever ShB gets updated (guessing 7.3?)

probably needs adjusting the crystal tower is super bright in the actual alliance raid series in ARR

Maybe making it less bright was intentional, but without brightness at all it kinda just looks like ice. The "crystal tower" more like a giant stalagmite.

@@kou7191 It's probably unintentional. The inside of Syrcus Tower looks really good, and even the Crystal Tower in ARR cutscenes from after the Xan'de fight looks really nice.

that said, the image quality does appear crisper in 7.0, did a number of pauses and there is noticeably less bluriness

Varis also didn't get updated yet, which is super funny because his model was already old when it was first introduced.

Agree, some characters noticeably got up-rezzed like the core Scion members (player chara, Alphinaud, Thancred, etc), but others who only appear in a smaller number of cutscenes are not (Varis, Graha). They're clearly prioritising the models with the most screentime. The amount they did is not small. The reflectiveness and highlights of shaders improved for clothes, buildings, everything. They've added new texture maps I believe, and increased the texture maps resolution by 2x at least. New lights for certain scenes got added. The animation for newer expansions is also getting better and better, the Player has more varied expressions in cutscenes (speaking as someone who's going through them for the first time right now). The eyes of each character has extra lights to bring out the shine. The hair textures have highlights and better definition.

I do not know of a single person who thought that it was every aspect. Seems like a strawman.

then why the hell is koana's jacket a minecraft texture

They are, it's just going to take some patience to see results.

SE needs to take a look at this, as it is clearly unintentional. Seems they used the old lighting system as a clever trick to get the Crystal Tower to glow, but the new system removed that effect; So they'll need to patch in an alternative. The original glow is still there, but it is obtruded by the way the engine changes have effected how lighting casts through transparency layers and reflects off surfaces.

Then this is kinda weird then.

@@QuixoteX For further clarity; things that were changed already include characters using the in-game character creator foir their models, the lightning engine, shadows, and universal materials (such as gold, stone, grass, etc). Models that use specific materials or character features (such as the Exarch, newer armor sets, etc.) will be being updated patch by patch. They even mentioned in one of the early livestream talks that this meant you would end up with some weird situations where updated and non-updated npcs would end up interacting in some cases but they'd all end up getting a glow-up over time. It's just a LOT of work goes into updating the hundreds of thousands of textures in the game + development of new things going forward so it's broken up to make it more manageable for the team.

Unless your framerate is dipping neither seem to be doing much at all. The 99 trick forces FSR to to rescale and sharpen the image. Personally I think that looks bad. Most of what is visually different between the two is the Anti-Aliasing that is used.

Pissed as in angry or drunk? Cause both might be true.

Yes, I htink they're still adjusting lighting. Some scenes had an added camera light. Send them some feedback...

It looks like they changed some animations as well, you can see when they have a close up of the exarch speaking, in Endwalker he moves more

Wait, really? Everyone's textures are vastly improved. I was very distracted when I logged in for the new update because everyone's eyes finally had highlights in every scene and their hair doesn't look like pixel art, and their face had higher res textured highlights.

@@applepie9806 there are definitely differences, I just thought it was gonna be much more noticeable. I should have managed my expectations better, but maybe it's because my settings were at max already before the update?

There is a pulsing glow, it's just more subtle. Probably unintended, however.

It's because you only see this "consumed by crystal" version of the Exarch for maybe 5 minutes in total cutscene time. They're prioritising the most screentime models first, special models later it seems.

They changed a large number of shaders and textures, I guess they haven't reviewed this cutscene yet.

It does exactly what a comparison is supposed to do.

It's still nice to see the comparison. I wanted to know the differences with the vids side by side, and I got it.

I guess you are not familiar with the current state of the game. It is currently set up so that you must have either FSR or DLSS. Neither are really gonna have much effect unless your fps dips. However that determines which AA you have. Actually it is better to match the resolution of the original.

​@@QuixoteXfun fact: the DLSS implementation is actually bugged atm. It's not enabled during cutscenes. Was a huge post on the subreddit about it a couple days after DT launch.

You need to look up the word "comparison".

There is no misinformation. You are misinterpreting it. Context is provided.

After a viewing of this scene in both modes separately I see very little difference. I could do a side by side, but what in particular do you see that looks better when using AMD?

@@QuixoteX It's the 3D resolution scaling. NVIDIA remove sharpness of the image since they scale differently from what i have (Imagine does get clearer at 99 instead of 100). Oh, only use Dynamic if you have 4K monitor though, otherwise it doesn't help much.

@@dale7326 Both are scaling schemes If you set 30 fps the scaling never kicks in. Nvidia has built in AA while the AMD offers a choice of of AA, It seems to me the Nivida AA is superior out in the world. The 99 trick is forcing it to apply the scaling and then sharpen the image, much like you might do in a graphic editing program. It looks less natural to me. If that is what you like fine but there are still the environmental aliasing issues that nvidia seems to handle better. Neither is perfect but that doesn't address the question about this scene.

@@QuixoteX The changes mostly relate to models and textures, not scaling. XIV foremost needed none of these tech but rather they added them to reduce the need of extra work and cost. Aside, cutscenes are prerendered so i see not much needed for having neither DLSS or FSR though. The only reason you need them because other games have motions label on top of objects to pixels rendering somewhat work well for that. Otherwise yes, there aren't much different, sure. Since you're talking about how they look like be different so i answered that AMD is working better atm because DLSS is bluring and having flash effect in certain environments.

@@dale7326 Actually no the cutscenes are not pre-rendered. They are rendered in real time. Notice how each player's character is in most scenes and how the camera angle changes according to their height, and how many scenes will change according to the time of day. Blurring happens with both. I don't know what you mean by flashing effects. Perhaps you can reference something specific? DLSS reduces the flickering problem s on the ground and in trees, grass and steps.

They're not updated yet. They'll probably put some crystalline shader on it. I imagine.

A few comments above they mentioned something about special model characters taking a bit longer to update so maybe thats why he didn't get his official glowup yet

@@Darksin757Production yea

Why are you on KZfaq if you're worried about spoilers from a 5 year old expansion?

@@laerwen Did you seriously just ask me why I'm on KZfaq? The video-hosting platform with millions of videos covering an endless range of topics?

DLSS has overall produced better results in game, however both DLSS and FSR seem do about the same on this scene. Can you point out anything in particular?

the new expac is a new beginning.. this was the a moment in a 10 year story. not on the same level for comparison.

@@azadalamiq Yes and no. Dawntrail has significant weaknesses in its storystelling that have nothing to do with it being a beginning - it is a badly paced story. The framework is solid but the panelling is weak.

@@ExceedProduction lol

@@azadalamiq both Graha and Elidibus were completely overhauled in ShB to the point that they might as well be different characters. Same for Ascians. There was no "10 years of build-up" aside from maybe you getting used to the game and your character. 20-30h is *plenty* enough to tell a compelling story. That's twice or thrice as long as most tv series.

Maybe the exact wasn't great because of setting up

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